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Evening Star, Issue 7168, 23 March 1887, Page 2

The Timaru Four-mill is to be lighted by electricity.

Tho Minister of Mines has gone to Auck land.

There was a clean charge-sheet at the City Police Court this morning. The Queen holds a review of the British volunteers ut Buckingham Pidacc on tho 22nd July.

A conference of trades’ unions at Auckland passed resolutions In favor of legislation for the compulsory closing of shops. Tho annual draughts match between Otago and Canterbury players has been fixed for Easter week. The Canterbury players arrive here on April 9, and six or eight of them will put In an appearance, Sarah Jane Kane, eighteen years of ago, who was employed at the Baldwin Hotel as a waitress, died very suddenly yesterday morning from heart disease. The Coroner has deemed an inquest unnecessary.

At the Auckland criminal session yesterday Jesse Coxhead, for horse stealing, was sentenced to throe years’ Imprisonment j Frederick Ellis and William Small, for assault and robbery, to seven years’. A feature of the St. Patrick’s Day sports at Lawrence was that the course was marked out with orange and blue flags. There was not a patch of the national color to be seen, except an occasional sprig of green stuff in the button-holes of a few patriots. The local paper remarks that two Chinamen were conspicuous by their green scarves. The entries for the dog show on Friday are considered very satisfactory, and comprise—Mastiffs, 2 entries ; Newfoundlands, 8 ; St, Bernards, 7; greyhounds, 7pointers, 4; setters, 8 ; retrievers, 8 ; spaniels, 7; collies, 10; fox-terriers, 43; Skye terriers, 2 ; black-and-tan, 7 ; bulldogs, 6 ; bull terriers, 7 ; Chinese pugs, 3. Another large audience assembled at the Princess’s last night, when the fourth representation of “lolanthe ” was given. Encores were numerous, and the chorus “ Don’t go ” was re-demanded for the first time. Owing to the success with which this opera has met it decided to play it to two nights longer. ‘ ‘ Patience ” will, therefore, not be produced till Friday.

The carnival at Port Chalmers was well attended yesterday evening. The children danced the Maypole and Russian dances, to the evident delight of the audience; a concert was given by the Sawyers Bay Choral Society ; solos were contributed by Misses Kelly, Baton, Welsh, and Mr Cleghorn ; and the Garrison Band played several selections. The receipts of the evening wore L 25.

At the inquest on Mrs O’Neill, who died from the effects of taking poison, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased came by her death through the neglect of her husband, Henry O’Neill, in not procuring for her necessary medical aid, diet, and attention. As the verdict was equivalent to one of manslaughter, the Coroner issued his warrant for the arrest of O’Neill, and allowed him bd.il, hinisclf in L3()0 and two sureties of LIOO each. Captain Jackson, of the Timaru Artillery, has imported an article called the telemeter, or pocket range-finder, which is designed to give, without any calculation, the distance of any visible object. Its chief merits are that it does not require much training to use it, and it is not necessary that it should be levelled at a definite sized object (such as a man standing erect). The scale is calculated for a thirty yards base, and is divided from 300 to 3,000 yards, but any distance from 100 to 9,0C|0 yards can easily be measured. The ‘ Herald ’adds that Captain Jackson intends testing this instrument as soon as possible. About thirty members of the North Dunedin Presbyterian Church met in the church last night, under the presidency of the Rev. Mr Gibb (moderator of the Dunedin Presbytery). The Moderator explained that as the church had been left without a treasurer, secretary, or any officer, it was necessary for the Congregation to appoint an interim committee to manage the affairs of the congregation until regular officers were elected. The congregation thereupon elected Messrs E. Anderson, Stevenson, K. Spencer, G. Mitchell, W. Adams, and D. Bcthune, jun., and cm [lowered them to make arrangements for the obtaining of temporary supply. Mr White was appointed interim organist. According to the Melbourne correspondent of the ‘ Sydney Morning Herald,’ a company recently formed will make a nice little thing out of the right granted them by Parliament as a free gift of a supply of water for ten years out of the Yarra, The right was supposed to bo in connection with irrigation works, but the lease was not made subject to any conditions, and the lucky recipients now propose to turn it to the best account by selling it to a company, which propose to bring the water to Melbourne. The price which they ask, and which they will receive, is L 50.000. Messrs Faram and Thomas, who secured the lease, and who toil not neither do they dig, will pocket LJO.OOO. As the lease was only granted to them in September last, they have certainly lost no time in making a fortune out of nothing, or, rather, out of the national property. If the right was worth such a sum, it was by gross carelessness, by almost incredible neglect, that the money, instead of going to the State, was handed over to'private individuals. One of the most remarkable journals in existence commenced its monthly career in Birmingham on New Year’s Day. This is ‘The Home Protection News,’ owned and edited by aMr Alfred Turner. The editor declares himself to be “a Pantheistic Unitarian Spiritualist,” and states that, although “ his wife has passed on to spirit life in the perfection of matured lovely womanhood,” she still inspires and assists him in his work. The new venture, which is to advocate in a somewhat original form Mr Robertsonfc Homestead Bill, is to be supported without capital or help from anyone. The first issue is to consist of four editions. The first edition, of seven copies, will be priced at L 7 each. The second edition will number seventy-seven, and these will be sold at one guinea each. The third edition will be sold at sevenpencc each, and of these there will be 777. The fourth edition will be at the ordinary price of one penny. The first edition is to bo sold at L 7 each to “ seven wealthy, spiritual-minded, earnest women,” to be called “ the circle of the seven sisters.” The second edition, at a guinea each, will be sold to any applicants. This extraordinary editor signs himself “Alfred Turner, O.D.G. of the Mystic Number?.’ The opening of the Napicr-Woodvillc railway was celebrated yesterday with considerable eclat. About 1,500 people, including a number of representative men, journeyed from Napier, the train comprising three locomotives, nineteen carriages, and two vans. The carriages were so full that numbers at Napier, Danevirk and other wayside stations, had to be left behind. On Woodville being reached the chairman and members of the local Reception Committee met and welcomed the Minister of Works, who was accompanied by Mr Beetham, M.H.R., Mr VV. O. Smith, M.H.R., and Mr Howard Spensclcy (ex-M.P. for Finsbury), and the Mayors of Napier and Palmerston North. Captain Russell was unable to get on the train at Napier, and Mr Ormond was prevented from attending. Within the station yard the Minister and Messrs Beetham and Smith planted oaks in commemoration of the event; and later some 200 persons sat down to a luncheon, at which Mr W. C. Smith presided. The entertainment was on strictly teetotal lines, Woodville having until quite recently been a Rechabite settlement. The Minister of Works, in replying to the toast of the Ministry, said that the Premier would have been present, but had been prevented. Personally, he might say he had cut many a tree down, and bad done a colonist’s work, and he was proud of it. He had seen the struggles of the early settlers not only here, but in other colonies, and men who had gone through such work deserved to be rewarded. He had been over the district and knew how good the land t here about was; and consequently, with perseverance, ho had little doubt the residents there would get their reward. It was not usual to observe much ceremony at the opening of these short sections of railway, but they had looked forward so long to the completion of the line to its present terminus that it gave him much gratification to bo there. The great train they saw steaming into the station one hour before proved that the whole community of Hawke’s Bay looked upon the opening of the Hue as an event of considerable importance. One of the first acts of this Government was to put this section under construction, and he hoped Parliament would provide funds to enable them to complete the remaining links to Masterton and Palmerston at an early date. Mr Smith lauded the Governipent for the energy they had displayed in railway matters, and said that the Woodville district had special reason to be thankful to Mr Richardson. Mr Spenseley said that as a teetotaller he was rejoiced at being present at such an entertainment and witnessing the Queen’s health drunk in a cup of teq. The Napier excursionists left Woodville at six o’clock in the evening.

The Rev. Mr Dutton has received a call to the Presbyterian Church at Longbush (Southland). While employed on top of a stack of hay at Manuka Creek on Saturday a lad named Sneddon overbalanced himself and fell on the prong of a fork, which penetrated his left lung. He was removed to the Lawrence Hospital. Ono hundred and fifty excursionists went to Eld.erslie to-ofty. The Volunteer review at Waihola formed the main attraction for pleasure seekers, fully a thousand people leaving Dunedin at eleven o’clock by special train, which consisted of twenty-one carriages. The Volunteers had gone to the rendezvous by an early train, At the recent session of the Grand Lodge of 1.0.0. F., held at Auckland, the following officers were elected! P.D.G.M. Bro. Naphtali, of Napier, grand master, and bis travelling allowance fixed at the rate of L 25 per annum ; G.W, Bro. Medley, of Invercargill. deputy grand master j Bro. T. Cole, of Dunedin, grand warden ; Bro. W. Reid, of Dunedin, grand secretary (reelected at previous salary, LIOO a-year); Bro, J. S. Alexander, of Dunedin, grand treasurer. Trustees: Bros. Michie, Gourley, and Braithwaite, of Dunedin. Auditors : Bros, Wathen, J. Capstick, and S. Solomon, of Dunedin. It was agreed that the next session should bt, held in Oamaru.

Mr G. Aldridge lectures on “Eternal Punishment ” in the Choral Hall to-morrow evening.

Annual meeting of tho Freemasons’ Hall Company in tho Masonic Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow.

Members of Court Pride of tho Leith, A.0.F., meet at Railway Station at 6.15 p m. to-morrow.

To-morrow afternoon a public trial of Barroll’s patent washing machine will be given in tho Lyceum Hall. The Linden choir, assisted by friends, give tho service of song “ > va ” in the Mornington Wesleyan Church to-morrow nigh*. The Mayor requests employers of labor to give thoir employes who wish to bo present at tho laying of the Burns Statue stone a half holiday on Saturday. Patents have been applied for as follow : —H. andG. Edwards, of Wellington, for “ Tho perfection washing machine ”; J. Smith, of Auckland, for “Smith’s patent gum spear”; M. A. Dcspeissir, of Victoria, for improved means of creating a draught through the tubes or flues of steam boilers; A. M‘Far land, of Melbourne, for improvements in the construction of spring mattresses ; H. S. Smith, of Sydney (for H. C. Sergeant, of New York), for an improvement in rock drills; B. Hughes, of Ashburton, for better means of distributing poisoned grain, etc., for tho destruction of birds ; D, J. Fitzgerald, circus proprietor, of Christchurch, for a mechanical circus rider’s trainer ; H. G. Vine, of Dunedin, for “ Vino’s turbine steam washer”; R. J. Roberts, of Auckland, for “Rofceits’s patent automatic fitter.”